Chapter 7: Into the Tiger's Den
"How much have you already slipped in?" I asked Xiao Huang again.
I don't gamble, but I often hear my dad talk to my grandfather about the casino.
Grandpa hated my dad at first, not being angry and not taking the right path. Later, when I saw that he couldn't go back and still lost money, I took the initiative to tell him about my experience and support him.
I just like to eavesdrop on the sidelines. So I know a lot of the sermons and code words in the casino. I asked how much Huang put it in? Just ask him how much money he lost in total?
Xiao Huang stared at me for a moment with wide eyes.
It may suddenly occur to me that I am the son of a gambling king, and I understand this. The expression on his face suddenly relaxed a little. Then I mysteriously swept around with my eyes, and found that no one had said to me, "One hundred and fifty thousand." ”
I wasn't surprised to hear the numbers he said this time. Because from his sluggish mood, I can see that he is lightly planted.
"Are all the paws of all this money?" I asked him again.
He said that 100,000 was paw money, and that 50,000 was borrowed from a friend. I said, do you want to run away or do you want to keep fighting?
There are many people in the casino who lose their gambling and cannot afford to repay the paw money, so they run out and hide from returning home.
Some of them even fled to Shanghai or Beijing with their families to make a living by working. It was a miserable day.
There are also those who left their wives and children to run out alone to hide their debts. There are many people who have separated their wives and lived a lonely and miserable life in the second half of their lives.
How many families have broken up as a result of gambling, how many children have lost their warm families, their parents' love.
My dad just got a fatal lesson.
Thinking of this, my heart ached again. What a good home is now like this.
Xiao Huang had a bitter expression on his face again: "I won't tell you, I'm thinking about it." But I have old parents, a wife and children, so if I run away, my family will be separated sooner or later. What about my parents and children? What about the 50,000 yuan that I still have? ”
Hearing what he said, I thought to myself that this guy still has a little heart, and his conscience has not been completely lost.
Grandpa said that the gambling court can best understand people's hearts and see a person's character the most. In our local dialect, gambling is like character. Money is heart, liver and blood, and when you lose money in the casino, your eyes are red. How can you care about pretending to be anything?
The nature of those who regard wealth as their fate, those who die for wealth and birds die for food, the good and the bad, the good and the evil, are all revealed.
Grandpa said that a person is selfish but has a conscience, this kind of person can be friends, but can only be used as an ordinary friend, not friends.
I don't know if Huang is selfish because he hasn't dealt with him. I said in my heart that this man has a good conscience, so I will try it for him first.
I said to him, "Then fight again, I'll go with you tonight, I'll help you out, but you have to listen to me." ”
I decided to send a handful of 10,000 pieces to go deep into the tiger's den to find out.
If you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger. If my dad had been killed, I would have brought him to justice. He can't be allowed to harm anyone else.
Xiao Huang's face was surprised, and then excited.
He nodded vigorously, then handed over another cigarette.
I said, "I don't smoke, don't go to the delivery in the afternoon." Don't be cranky, we'll go together in the evening, it's yours if you win, and mine if you lose. ”
I comforted him as I pushed away his hand handing the cigarette.
Xiao Huang happily agreed: "Okay." Then he got up and went with me to pick up the goods.
The thin man is a very goblin man, and he can see that Xiao Huang and I are talking about some secret thing. I noticed that his little eyes were glancing over to us from time to time.
Sure enough, when he was on the list, he came up to me and whispered, is Xiao Huang borrowing money from you?
I said no, I wanted to go with him to the 28 bar field at night.
The thin man advised me not to go, because the bald head could not drill into the prickly pit.
I told the thin man that I didn't want to gamble, but to help Xiao Huang watch the battle. When the thin man heard that he wanted to go too, we agreed to go together in the evening.
After work, I took the only remaining 10,000 yuan with me at the ATM.
It was almost nine o'clock after dinner in the evening, and I sent a message to Xiao Huang after my mother was lying down.
Beckon Chubby to help me listen, and if my mom calls me for something, he'll call me.
I got everything arranged and I went out. Standing on the side of the road and waiting for a while, a black Beijing Hyundai stopped in front of me.
Huang stuck her head out of the window and called me to get in the car.
There were already four people in the car, and Xiao Huang and the thin driver were a young man. Just a seat was vacated for me to sit.
Recently, the city police have tightened their grip and moved the casino to a remote rural area. All the people who participate in the gambling money are specially picked up by car.
This young man drove so fiercely that he drove to a hundred horsepower as soon as he left the city. Sitting on it is terrified.
The car drove for half an hour before turning onto a mountain village road.
Now the country is building a new countryside, and the cement road has been paved from the road to every household, so the road is easy to walk.
Unlike before, there were potholes, and the car was bumpy on them. If it rains again, the muddy water will be cheap, and the car will be full of yellow mud and water stains. Miserable.
Well, now the state has come out with a new policy. It is necessary to carry out economic, political, cultural, and social construction in the rural areas. In the end, it is necessary to build the rural areas into new socialist rural areas with prosperous economy, perfect facilities, beautiful environment, and civilization and harmony.
Today's rural areas are not what they used to be, and this would have been built in accordance with the requirements of "life development, affluent life, civilized townships, clean and tidy villages, and democratic management." The countryside is not much worse than the city. Those young people who are wandering abroad might as well return to their hometowns to develop. After all, this is where you return to your roots.
I sat in the car and looked out the window, and there were street lights installed in the village. Shine on the magnificence and brilliance of the decoration of exclusive small buildings.
It shows that the people in these villages have wealth. Looking at the high-end bonsai in front of the building and behind the building, the rockery and antique pavilion in the back garden. It is enough to show that these people dare not describe them as having strong financial resources, but at least they have a solid family. And they know how to enjoy life.
I didn't think of Dad, you have me, you have a beautiful wife who loves you so much, and such a nice villa to live in. Why gamble? Isn't this called happiness and sorrow, and if there are too many good days, you have to do it.
However, even if you lose the villa and all the property, as long as you live, as long as you get rid of the problem of gambling, life will get better and better.
But now you're putting your life into it. No matter how good the life and beauty are, you will never see what I will be like in the future.
Instantly, I felt a pang of sadness in my heart. Raising his eyes to look at the distant sky, he said to his father in his heart, "Dad, my son is here to collect debts for you." ”